Ohio editor Royhab retiring, led paper to Pulitzer

TOLEDO, Ohio 
Ron Royhab, who helped lead The Blade to a Pulitzer Prize, will retire as the Toledo newspaper's vice president and executive editor.

Royhab, 67, said Thursday that he will work through the end of the year. His successor was not announced.

He has been executive editor since 1997 and a vice president of The Toledo Blade Co. since 2004. Royhab was named managing editor of The Blade in 1993 and previously was an associate editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Both newspapers are owned by Block Communications Inc.

In 2004, The Blade won a Pulitzer, journalism's highest honor, for investigative reporting for stories on a unit of American soldiers accused of killing hundreds of unarmed villagers during the Vietnam War. The newspaper was a Pulitzer finalist in 2000 and 2006.

Royhab received the Benjamin C. Bradlee Editor of the Year Award in 2005 from the National Press Foundation.

The Blade has a circulation of about 111,000 on weekdays and 136,000 on Sundays.